Arraignment delayed in stadium-beating case

July 25, 2011

Updated Aug. 21, 2013 1:17 p.m.

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Marvin Norwood (left) and Louie Sanchez (right) have been in custody since Thursday in lieu of $500,000 bail. They are suspected of attacking San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium earlier this year.

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Beating victim Bryan Stow and his children are shown in this file photo. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, right, and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announce the arrest of two new suspects in the beating of a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodger Stadium, at a news conference at LAPD headquarters Friday, July 22, 201. Beck said the evidence 'exonerates' the original suspect, Giovanni Ramirez. Damian Dovarganes, AP

Marvin Norwood (left) and Louie Sanchez (right) have been in custody since Thursday in lieu of $500,000 bail. They are suspected of attacking San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium earlier this year.

LOS ANGELES — Two men suspected of beating San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium on opening day made their first court appearance Monday, but their arraignment was postponed until Aug. 10.

Louie Sanchez, 29, and Marvin Norwood, 30, both of Rialto, were arrested Thursday and charged Friday in connection with the March 31 attack. The two men, who are neighbors in Rialto, are each being held in lieu of $500,000 bail.

A bail hearing for Sanchez was scheduled for Aug. 1.

Both are charged with mayhem, assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury and battery with serious bodily injury, all felonies, according to the District Attorney's Office. Sanchez was also charged with two misdemeanor counts of battery stemming from another alleged run-in the same day, when he allegedly attacked another man and woman, according to the criminal complaint.

Police said Stow was attacked solely because he was wearing Giants apparel while his attackers and the female getaway driver were wearing Dodgers gear.

Stow, a 42-year-old Santa Cruz paramedic and a father of two, remains hospitalized at San Francisco General Hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery last week after suffering a seizure due to a build of fluid on his brain.

An initial suspect in the case, 31-year-old Giovanni Ramirez, was arrested May 22 but not officially charged in the Stow beating and has now been cleared of any involvement, even though police Chief Charlie Beck initially expressed confidence the right man had been arrested. Ramirez is now jailed in San Diego on a violation of his parole stemming from another case.

The assailants allegedly fled in a car driven by a woman. Dorene Virginia Sanchez, 31, the sister of Louie Sanchez and the wife or girlfriend of Norwood, was arrested as an accessory but released Friday on $50,000 bail. She has not been charged, but has a tentative court date of Aug. 19, according to Los Angeles County Jail records.

Norwood, according to arrest records, stands about 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 250 pounds, roughly matching the description witnesses gave police of one of the attackers. Louie Sanchez was listed as 5 feet 11 inches tall and 175 pounds, which also closely matches a description given by witnesses.

Fontana police described Louie Sanchez as having neck tattoos when he was arrested for drunken driving in 2005, according to court records. The LAPD has described one of the assailants in the Stow attack as possibly having tattoos on his neck.

Louie Sanchez lives with his parents, six houses away from Norwood. Police on Thursday searched the homes and towed a truck that neighbors said belonged to Norwood.

A neighbor said Norwood and Dorene Sanchez live with three children, including a toddler and two children between 9 and 11 years old. Louie Sanchez's son is about 9 or 10 and visits his father on weekends, according to a neighbor.

Witnesses to the Dodger Stadium beating reported seeing a child about 10 years old in the car in which the two assailants fled after the attack. A law enforcement source told the Los Angeles Times that a child provided authorities with information about the crime.

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